arrived<\/a> at his team\u2019s hotel in Toronto at 5:30 a.m. ET Saturday morning after being traded from the Kings, hours before the pregame skate and puck drop. The 40-year-old has suited up for six teams since 2019 and has made the Cup Final in five of his last six seasons.<\/p>\n\u201cAt the end of the day, you have a chance to win the Stanley Cup and come to a great team and a great Cup contender,\u201d Perry told the media in Toronto on Saturday morning, hours before the Lightning defeated the Maple Leafs 5-2. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what the end goal is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perry\u2019s former Kings teammate, Foegele, met his new Senators teammates on Saturday and said it had been a \u201cwild 48 hours\u201d for him. However, that didn\u2019t mean he was any less excited to join his new squad. On deadline day, he texted a winky-faced emoji to Senators defenseman Jordan Spence as a sign that he was coming. The two were teammates in Los Angeles and grew close through dinners and card games away from the rink.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really confused,\u201d Spence said. \u201cI had never gotten a text like that before from (Foegele). Once I realized that he got traded here, I was really pumped, and we chatted before he even got here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Senators dominated the Seattle Kraken 7-3 Saturday night, with Foegele scoring the game-winning goal in the third period.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t even know if it was a game winner,\u201d Foegele said. \u201cI was sitting on the bench (thinking), I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve been in a game where we had seven goals in a couple of years. Awesome that we got the two points, and we\u2019ve just got to keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Laughton contributed a game-tying goal in the second period against the Montreal Canadiens minutes before the intermission. Laughton joined the Kings via trade from the Maple Leafs on Friday, rushing to get his things from his home in downtown Toronto before catching a flight at the airport, only to experience a flight delay.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s what happens in our business, and guys go through it all the time,\u201d Laughton said after the Kings\u2019 4-3 loss to the Canadiens on Saturday night. \u201cI\u2019m happy to be here (in Los Angeles). And I\u2019m happy to be with this group and try to make a push (for the playoffs). Once you get in, you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laughton\u2019s first goal as a King also resulted in teammate Jared Wright\u2019s first NHL point. The Minnesota native made his NHL debut last Monday against Colorado and got the primary assist on Laughton\u2019s goal Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very happy for him,\u201d Laughton said. \u201cI actually didn\u2019t know. Good kid, skates well. Very happy for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, Strome contributed a goal in the Flames\u2019 5-4 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. But the spotlight wasn\u2019t for him alone; another new teammate, Olli M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4, registered an assist on Strome\u2019s goal, seconds into the game\u2019s second period.<\/p>\n
According to the Flames, it\u2019s the first time since 2013 that a scoring play resulted in points for two Flames playing their first games with the franchise. Strome was acquired from Anaheim, while M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4 was acquired from Utah in the MacKenzie Weegar trade. (Weegar also made his debut for Utah on Saturday and picked up an assist in a 5-4 overtime win over the Columbus Blue Jackets.)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an absolutely insane day,\u201d Strome told the media Saturday after the game. \u201cBusy 24 hours telling my kids I was getting traded. They were getting pretty emotional. Long day. But, as hockey players, the easiest thing to do is to just go out there and play. So, that was the easy part.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strome was one of 33 players traded on Friday as part of 20 trades, according to the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 The NHL trade deadline is always a frantic time for players changing addresses and teams, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,7525,7526,7524,575,6597,85,4788],"class_list":["post-527199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-calgary-flames","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-lightning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}